_To_ W. B. DONNE, 22-26, 31, 41, 97, 187, 198, 203, 206, 210, 241, 253, 259, 279 _To_ SAMUEL LAURENCE, 75, 90, 116, 117, 121, 137, 140, 146, 166, 170, 215, 225, 233, 242 _To_ W. F. POLLOCK, 114, 115, 125, 133, 283 _From_ JAMES SPEDDING, 75 _note_ _To_ FREDERIC TENNYSON, 57, 66, 76, 81, 86, 91, 101, 111, 118, 139, 141, 143, 144, 150, 163, 176, 180, 188, 192, 199, 200, 223, 236, 244, 249, 254, 256, 260, 269, 271, 275, 285, 287 _From_ W. M. THACKERAY, 280 _To_ W. M. THACKERAY, 38, 281 _From_ W. H. THOMPSON, 22 _note_ _To_ W. H. THOMPSON, 79, 85 _The asterisks indicate the letters which are here printed for the first time_. Footnotes: {0a} See Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald, vol. iii. p. 464. {14} Now Librarian of the William Salt Library at Stafford: introduced to FitzGerald at Cambridge by Thackeray. [He died 10th February 1893, aged 82.] {19} Through the kindness of Mr. Thomas Allen, I have been enabled to recover these missing stanzas:-- TO A LADY SINGING. 1. Canst thou, my Clora, declare, After thy sweet song dieth Into the wild summer air, Whither it falleth or flieth? Soon would my answer be noted, Wert thou but sage as sweet throated. 2. Melody, dying away, Into the dark sky closes, Like the good soul from her clay Like the fair odor of roses: Therefore thou now art behind it, But thou shalt follow and find it. {22} 'My dear Donne,' as FitzGerald called him, 'who shares with Spedding my oldest and deepest love.' He afterwards succeeded J. M. Kemble as Licenser of Plays. The late Master of Trinity, then Greek Professor, wrote to me of him more than five and twenty years ago, 'It may do no harm that you should be known to Mr. Donne, whose acquaintance I hope you will keep up. He is one of the finest gentlemen I know, and no ordinary scholar--remarkable also for his fidelity to his friends.' {23} The Return to Nature, or, a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen, dedicated to Dr. W. Lambe, and written in 1811. It was printed in 1821 in The Pamphleteer, No. 38, p. 497. {28} Wherstead Lodge on the West bank of the Orwell, about two miles from Ipswich, formerly belonged to the Vernon family. The FitzGeralds lived there for about ten years, from 1825 to 1835, when they removed to Boulge, near Woodbridge, the adjoining Parish to Bredfield. {32} By De Quincey, in Tait's Magazine, Sept. 1834, etc. {38} At Boulge. {42} Life of Cowper. {43a} Probably the Perse Grammar School. {43b} See Carlyle's Life of Sterling, c. iv. {44} East Anglian for 'shovel.' {45} Mrs. Schutz lived till December, 1847. {50a} The Quaker Poet of Woodbridge, whose daughter FitzGerald afterwards married. {50b} His eldest brother, John Purcell FitzGerald. {52} Letters from an eminent Prelate to one of his Friends, 2nd ed.; 1809, p. 114, Letter XLVI. {57} A noted prize fighter.